Best Crime movies of 1970s

Actors : Robert Quarry, Don Pedro Colley, Betty Anne Rees, Marki Bey,
Directors : Paul Maslansky,

When her boyfriend is murdered by gangsters, Sugar Hill decides not to get mad, but BAD! She entreats voodoo queen Mama Maitresse to call on Baron Samedi, Lord of the Dead, for help with a ...

Actors : Barbara Babcock, Paula Prentiss, Harry Dean Stanton, Robert Foxworth,
Directors : Harold Becker,

A romantic comedy which explores the pressures on police officers.

Actors : Tetsuya Watari, Eiji Gô, Yumi Takigawa, Tatsuo Umemiya,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the Japanese mafia but quickly loses his self control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa.

Actors : Hector Elizondo, Susan Blakely, Michael Moriarty, Yaphet Kotto,
Directors : Milton Katselas,

Police officer Patty Butler, alias "Chicklet," is the live-in girlfriend of Thomas 'Stick' Henderson to gather evidence. Detective Bo Lockley is instructed to try to find her, not knowing she's also a cop.

Actors : Lela Small, Yvonne Ross, Robert Judd, Catherine Peppers,
Directors : Robert A. Endelson,

A mean trashy exploitation picture about three convicts who escape from jail and hole up at the house of a black minister. There's a few nasty scene's where the ministers family are being ...

Actors : Michel Bouquet, Marina Ninchi, Stéphane Audran, Celia,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Charles Masson, an advertising executive, is having an affair with Laura, the wife of his best friend, the architect François Tellier. Charles strangles Laura when one of their S&M games ...

Actors : Fabio Testi, Paola Pitagora, Oliver Reed, Agostina Belli,
Directors : Sergio Sollima,

An Italian official's wife is kidnapped, and the kidnappers demand that a notorious prisoner be released in order for the man to get his wife back. He gets the man released--but then ...

Actors : Poul Bundgaard, Kirsten Walther, Ove Sprogøe, Morten Grunwald,
Directors : Erik Balling,

Egon is starting to be a little forgetful; he forgot the zone number, so he fails to open the strongbox. When he gets out of Vridslose State Prison, Kjeld and Benny have become associates ...

Actors : Stacy Keach, Trevor Howard, Richard Attenborough, Michael York,
Directors : Michael Anderson,

At a British Regimental party in Colonial India the widow of Captain Scarlett is assaulted in the garden and she accuses one of the newly arrived junior lieutenants of the crime.

Actors : Poul Bundgaard, Kirsten Walther, Ove Sprogøe, Morten Grunwald,
Directors : Erik Balling,

After his usual stay behind bars, Egon has another cunning plan involving millions. They rob over 4 million from a money transport. The gang keeps a low profile and hide the money. But it's...

Actors : Ian McShane, Sean Connery, Isabel Dean, Jeffry Wickham,
Directors : Caspar Wrede,

A gang of hijackers led by Ray Petrie (Ian McShane) seize a British plane as it is landing in Scandinavia. Ruthless military police chief Colonel Tahlvik (Sean Connery) is assigned to ...

Actors : Hanna Schygulla, Margarethe von Trotta, Harry Baer, Günther Kaufmann,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

A man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing. With several women as well as the police on his tail, he sets out to find an old friend.

Actors : Stacy Keach, Tisha Sterling, Keenan Wynn, Susan Tyrrell,
Directors : Burt Kennedy,

Everyone figures Lou Ford, a small-town, Montana, deputy sheriff, to be a normal, good-old-boy kind of regular Joe. But no one knows about "the sickness" that drives him to kill.

Actors : Sergiu Nicolaescu, Ilarion Ciobanu, Gheorghe Dinica, Alexandru Dobrescu,
Directors : Sergiu Nicolaescu,

Set in post war Romania, a communist who was tortured by the fascists during the war is now a police detective and sets about clearing his city of gangsters and black marketeers.

Actors : Judith Brown, Jennifer Gan, Pam Grier, Roberta Collins,
Directors : Gerardo de Leon,

American women prisoners in a foreign country. Sex and action.

Actors : Patrick Dewaere, Lino Ventura, Julien Guiomar, Victor Lanoux,
Directors : Pierre Granier-Deferre,

When political thugs murder an opponent's volunteer and also kill a cop, chief inspector Verjeat believes the politician who hired them is as guilty as the murderous goon. Verjeat's pursuit...

Actors : Vincent Gardenia, Gian Maria Volontè, Charles Cioffi, Silverio Blasi,
Directors : Francesco Rosi,

Biopic of Mafia boss Lucky Luciano, covering his life from 1946 to 1962 with occasional flashbacks.

Actors : James Mason, Maurice Ronet, Anthony Quinn, Michael Caine,
Directors : Robert Parrish,

When a US intelligence agent is unable to bring a ruthless drug baron to justice, he resorts to hiring a contract killer. But the man he is put in contact with turns out to be an old friend.

Actors : Clarissa Kaye-Mason, Ken Goodlet, Mark McManus, Mick Jagger,
Directors : Tony Richardson,

Based on a true story, Ned Kelly is unable to support his family in the Australian outback, he turns to stealing horses in order to make money. He gets more deeply drawn into the outlaw ...

Actors : Bill Cosby, Sidney Poitier, James Earl Jones, Denise Nicholas,
Directors : Sidney Poitier,

Dave Anderson and Manny Durrell are two high-class sneak thieves who have never been caught. Joshua Burke is a retired detective who has enough evidence on the both of them to put them ...